Fall Quote by Caroline Knapp

I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in…

— Caroline Knapp

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim.…

— Caroline Knapp

Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead…

— Caroline Knapp

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time…

— Caroline Knapp

“Life had this unmoored quality, full of voids and barely acknowledged yearnings, and if I'd made a list of things I wanted desperately at…

— Caroline Knapp

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

— Caroline Knapp

When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything…

— Caroline Knapp

Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

— Caroline Knapp

The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst…

— Caroline Knapp

Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like…

— Caroline Knapp

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks…

— Caroline Knapp

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself…

— Caroline Knapp